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Miscellaneous.

Louis Sevestre, aged forty-nine, shot himself in Paris. x A letter found in his pocket explained that he had invented a perfect aeroplane, but, as men had treated him badly, he had resolved to revenge himself on’all humanity by dying with his secret.

Telescopic funnels are one of the improvements which are projected by the designers of the new Dreadnoughts. The idea of these is that a ship, upon getting into close touch with the enemy, should be able to lower 1 the upper section of her funnels, and thus have as little top-hamper as possible for shell to make havoc amongst.

Japanese residents at Seattle have decided to withdraw their children from the public schools, because the education given is not satisfactory to them. Japanese schools and Japanese instructors will be substituted for American schools and American instructors, and the Japanese interested say, diplomatically,that this is due to a desire to avoid a repetition of the San Francisco trouble.

According to the “ Liberal,” the total loans made by the State to the late King Carlos amounted to £280,000. The Dowager Queen Maria Pia is stated to have received £400,000, while the advances to Government officials, naval and military officers, and court dignitaries amounted to £BOO,OOO. This makes a total sum of £1,480,000.

News comes from Paris that Judge Poittevin lias been suspended from the bench for three years for allowing Lemoine, the diamond manufacturing swindler, to have his freedom after he was arrested, thus enabling him to escape. Judge Poittevin justifies his action on the ground that the diamond industry and the diamond workers were threatened by Lemoine’s pretensions to be able to manufacture the gems, and he deemed it the quickest way to establish quietude to allow Lemoine to prove himself.a swindler.

It is reported from New York that an astronomical clock, the invention of Dr Herman Bumpus, the director, which shows all the movements of the earth, has been placed on view at the American Museum of Natural History. The museum authorities state that no similar device has before been exhibited for the instruction of the public. A stereopticon representing the sun is placed at a distance of 10ft. from a globe of paper composition, 4ft. in diameter, which is illumined from the lens in such a manner that one half of the sphere shows the light as the globe revolves slowly and changes its poise by means of mechanism connected with a small steeple clock. The globe derives its movement from the working of the clock, and the shadow of a wire placed at the back of the lens, which corresponds to the meridian of New York, and which is thrown upon the sphere, shows the time of day with mathematical accuracy.

There has recently been added to the Western Australian Court" at the Franco-British Exhibition the famous “Southern Cross” pearl. It is really a group of nine pearls united to each other in the form of a perfect cross. It is valued at £lO,OOO, and as there are gold specimens in the same Court valued at £20,000, it has been deemed advisable to have police protection both day and night for these exhibits. The “Southern Cross ” pearl is in precisely the same form and condition in which it was discovered by a native diver in a pearl shell collected from the Cossack fishery off the coast of Western Australia. It consists of nine pearls, of which seven form the longitudinal Jine and two the lateral line—one on each side. The pearls, which are of the size and shape of marrow-fat peas, are firmly united to one another by their lateral surfaces. So perfect is the cross-like formation that its - genuineness was at one time suspected, but since it has been taken to London it has been subjected to a most critical examination by experts to discover whether or not it -was the product of artificial combination.

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Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi

https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/WPRESS19080917.2.8

Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka

Waipukurau Press, Issue 309, 17 September 1908, Page 3

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Tapeke kupu
652

Miscellaneous. Waipukurau Press, Issue 309, 17 September 1908, Page 3

Miscellaneous. Waipukurau Press, Issue 309, 17 September 1908, Page 3

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